The organ is still there. It was a really unsuccessful job by Aeolian-Skinner, and not from their glory days. From day one the organ could not speak out of its bad location and openings. Several ranks were voiced as loud as they would go, and some were swapped out by the factory for ranks scaled larger and voiced even louder, just to try and get the thing heard. They tipped their hat somewhat at the organ reform movement, then a very strong effort by adding the "Garbage Scow", the portativ division with lots of North German screech and a little bit of power that wasn't lost in the chambers. The organ would be most unsuitable in Orchestra hall, and louder then hell, a piercing loud that has little intrinsic quality [[read Balls)So who knows where it will go. It is a curiosity piece from a confused period in organ building that was put into a death trap situation.
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